American Monarchy

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American Monarchy A solo exhibition by Enrique Figueredo Curated by Jodi Waynberg On View: October 24 – November 9, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24; 5-7pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12-6pm Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present American Monarchy, a solo exhibition by Enrique Figueredo. The exhibition expresses Figueredo’s surreal fantasy of becoming the first American monarch. Highlighting politics, religion and popular culture, sex, citizenship, mysticism, and iconography, Figueredo paints and carves images that are both recognizable and falsified, compelling the viewer to believe in these dream-like stills as scenes from the past, present and future. In combining material observations with questions of capitalistic responsibility, Figueredo challenges the dissonance between power and authority and the intentions of those who represent a society for either the greater good or the good of the chosen few. Figueredo uses his practice to confront the tension between his Venezuelan heritage and the surrounding American culture. Blending energetic marks and precise textures, Figueredo imposes the depth of figures onto planes, using an endless variation of simple lines that grow into forms. His increasingly physical process extends beyond the pure woodblock print, layering silk screen, oil sticks, paint and pencil on top of each print, destroying the preciousness of the original object in order to generate something new. Similarly, Figueredo’s large-scale paintings draw from his printmaking technique, composing colorful planes layered on top of one another, that merge the powdered wigs of our forefathers with the obscenities of our contemporary amusements. This is the first of three Workspace 2014 exhibitions featuring work by artists-in-residence of the LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance Inc.

• Contact:
• Jodi Waynberg
• gallery@artistsallianceinc.org
• 2124209202